IRONY OR JUST A COINCIDENCE?

I hate to drop the Alanis Morissette label on you, but I'm gonna be
the English geek for just a second here. A lawyer named Roach
fighting against pot laws is coincidence, not irony (NOW, August 9-15).

If a lawyer named Roach were defending tough pot laws on behalf of
the government, a case could be made for it being ironic (situational
irony occurring when the results of a situation are far different
from what's expected), but otherwise it's not.

Now, obviously, your first reaction will be to call me a stickler or
anal or something like that, but y'all led with it, and you're
supposed to be writers. Don't be cliches. No one wants to be compared
to Alanis.

Andrew Ryan Fox

Toronto